This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
Credits
Capital Punishment Cast
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Character |
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Clara Bow
She was 19, 60 years old when she died
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as Delia Tate |
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George Nichols
He was 61, 63 years old when he died
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Eddie Phillips
He was 25, 65 years old when he died
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Margaret Livingston
She was 29, 89 years old when she died
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Elliott Dexter
He was 54, 71 years old when he died
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Joseph Kilgour
He was 61, 69 years old when he died
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Alec B. Francis
He was 57, 66 years old when he died
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George Hackathorne
He was 28, 44 years old when he died
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as Dan OConnor |
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John T. Prince
He was 162, 86 years old when he died
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Edith Yorke
She was 57, 66 years old when she died
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Capital Punishment Crew
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Department |
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James P. Hogan as Director. He was 34 (53) years old when He died
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Directing |
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John F. Goodrich as Writer. He was 37 (50) years old when He died
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Writing |
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B.P. Schulberg as Story. He was 32 (65) years old when He died
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Writing |
